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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-10-16 06:35:59 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-17 03:17:44 +0200
commit85eae82a0855d49852b87deac8653e4ebc8b291f (patch)
treec7b6a9334bf9f56c361537c8273a12f4b0549e0b /kernel
parentMerge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux (diff)
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printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify()
The console_cpu_notify() function runs with interrupts disabled in the CPU_DYING case. It therefore cannot block, for example, as will happen when it calls console_lock(). Therefore, remove the CPU_DYING leg of the switch statement to avoid this problem. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 66a2ea37b576..2d607f4d1797 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1890,7 +1890,6 @@ static int __cpuinit console_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
switch (action) {
case CPU_ONLINE:
case CPU_DEAD:
- case CPU_DYING:
case CPU_DOWN_FAILED:
case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
console_lock();